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Apr 1, 2014 - How Star Navigation could have helped Flight MH 370 !

Viraf Kapadia, CEO of Star Navigation Systems Group and Amir Bhatti, Chief Technology Officer of the company were interviewed on CBC TV TORONTO about the importance of Air Safety and how the In Flight Safety Monitoring System (ISMS) might have helped missing Flight # MH 370:

Viraf kapadia, CEO of Star Navigation Systems Group Ltd was interviewed for a story in THE WASHINGTON POST about the missing flight MH 370 airlplane.

Star Navigation Systems Group, a Toronto company, has designed black-box technology that streams data in real time. It costs about $50,000 per plane, plus $10 more to transmit the data for each flying hour, chief executive Viraf S. Kapadia said. Only one customer has bought the system, he lamented.

“It’s all about the money for the airlines, even though it’s not a lot of money,” he said.